happyhunter wrote:Dunno about that. I know a couple blokes that own one shotgun, nothing else, and only shoot at duck season. Family and work take most their time. Shame pistol shooters don't have that freedom.
Cryptic wrote:How is it hard. Hell with rolling comps you can do 6 comps in a week if you were so inclined. 6 or 4 per gun a year is bugger all.
Our club has every Sun a comp and a fortnightly Tues comp night or you just ask them whenever you are there if you can do a rolling comp which counts to the 6.
I am sure if annoyingly your club only opens 1 day a week you can still go to other clubs and do theirs including rolling comps.
on_one_wheel wrote:Cryptic wrote:How is it hard. Hell with rolling comps you can do 6 comps in a week if you were so inclined. 6 or 4 per gun a year is bugger all.
Our club has every Sun a comp and a fortnightly Tues comp night or you just ask them whenever you are there if you can do a rolling comp which counts to the 6.
I am sure if annoyingly your club only opens 1 day a week you can still go to other clubs and do theirs including rolling comps.
That's all good if you work 5 days a week and live somewhere within reasonable distance from a club.
I up at 4am and and knock off work at 6pm, and work most weekends.
On the days that I do have off the wife gets bussy with work from 6 to 6 and I'm on Mr Mum dutys.
Living in country SA, there is no club anywhere even remotely nearby that dose night shoots.
How hard is it you ask ? .... pretty much impossible.
Luckily for me I can shoot rifles at night pretty much any night of the week provided I've got the energy left.
on_one_wheel wrote:Cryptic wrote:How is it hard. Hell with rolling comps you can do 6 comps in a week if you were so inclined. 6 or 4 per gun a year is bugger all.
Our club has every Sun a comp and a fortnightly Tues comp night or you just ask them whenever you are there if you can do a rolling comp which counts to the 6.
I am sure if annoyingly your club only opens 1 day a week you can still go to other clubs and do theirs including rolling comps.
That's all good if you work 5 days a week and live somewhere within reasonable distance from a club.
I up at 4am and and knock off work at 6pm, and work most weekends.
On the days that I do have off the wife gets bussy with work from 6 to 6 and I'm on Mr Mum dutys.
Living in country SA, there is no club anywhere even remotely nearby that dose night shoots.
How hard is it you ask ? .... pretty much impossible.
Luckily for me I can shoot rifles at night pretty much any night of the week provided I've got the energy left.
bladeracer wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:Cryptic wrote:How is it hard. Hell with rolling comps you can do 6 comps in a week if you were so inclined. 6 or 4 per gun a year is bugger all.
Our club has every Sun a comp and a fortnightly Tues comp night or you just ask them whenever you are there if you can do a rolling comp which counts to the 6.
I am sure if annoyingly your club only opens 1 day a week you can still go to other clubs and do theirs including rolling comps.
That's all good if you work 5 days a week and live somewhere within reasonable distance from a club.
I up at 4am and and knock off work at 6pm, and work most weekends.
On the days that I do have off the wife gets bussy with work from 6 to 6 and I'm on Mr Mum dutys.
Living in country SA, there is no club anywhere even remotely nearby that dose night shoots.
How hard is it you ask ? .... pretty much impossible.
Luckily for me I can shoot rifles at night pretty much any night of the week provided I've got the energy left.
I don't see how you could have sufficient interest to want to compete if you can't even find the time to attend a range - complete waste of time getting a pistol licence if you aren't interested in regular competition. That's why I haven't bothered again since moving to Victoria.
When I was working in the Kimberley for two years I had to fly to Perth or jump a bus to Darwin every eight-weeks to compete. I could attend the Kununnurra Pistol Club but they only shot "stand-and-take-deliberate-aim" rubbish that I couldn't be bothered with, they didn't even use holsters!
on_one_wheel wrote:I never said that I want to compete, I said I'd like to have a revolver or two.
bladeracer wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:I never said that I want to compete, I said I'd like to have a revolver or two.
For what purpose though?
If you aren't going to shoot them competitively, and are happy to put your money into firearms you can't actually use, then get a collector's licence.
duncan61 wrote:I got where bark was going from the beginning and I would get right into this but it does say at the bottom of the page not to discuss illegal activities.If I join the club and end up with a six shooter in .22 It will not be left behind when I go to the farm.
on_one_wheel wrote:For a second I thought you were taking the same line as our screwball government with all this justification stuff.
I've got plenty of personal belongings that I have difficulty justifying. Luckily for me I don't need to justify having them to our government. .... yet.
There lays the biggest single problem with the whole pistol licence thing.
What's wrong with owning one purely to smack cans off a fence post on the farm once in a while and also just enjoy it as a peice of functional mechanical artwork ? ... Stupid rules.
bigM wrote:Really ?
I guess it depends where you live relative to the club you are a member of (I live 20 minutes away).
Last year I had no problems getting over 50 attendances and I work full time.
In NSW we need 6 attendances if you own 1 (or no) pistols.
8 attendances if you own 2 classes of pistols, which I do.